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100+ Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators A Guide to RSS and More Version 2.0 By Quentin D’Souza This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 2.0 Canada License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ca/ "Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable." -John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) Quentin D’Souza http://www.TeachingHacks.com 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS SHOULD YOU READ THIS? .............................................................................................................. 6 WHAT IS RSS AND ATOM FEED? ................................................................................................. 6 WEB 2.0 – I DIDN’T KNOW THERE WAS A 1.0? ................................................................. 7 WHAT IS A FOLKSONOMY AND TAGGING? ........................................................................... 8 ISSUES AROUND TAGGING....................................................................................................................... 9 WHAT IS CREATIVE COMMONS?................................................................................................. 9 THINK ABOUT STUDENT PRIVACY........................................................................................... 10 WHAT DOES A FEED DO? ............................................................................................................... 11 WHAT DOES A FEED LOOK LIKE?.............................................................................................. 12 HOW CAN YOU USE FEEDS? ......................................................................................................... 13 USING AN ONLINE AGGREGATOR - BLOGLINES.............................................................. 16 SETTING UP A FEED IN BLOGLINES....................................................................................................... 16 VIEWING YOUR FEED IN BLOGLINES .................................................................................................... 19 WHERE DO YOU FIND FEEDS?.................................................................................................... 19 IDEAS TO GET YOU STARTED...................................................................................................... 21 SOCIAL BOOKMARKING AND RSS ........................................................................................................ 21 WHAT IS SOCIAL BOOKMARKING?........................................................................................................ 21 HOW IT WORKS? ................................................................................................................................... 22 BLOGGING AND RSS.............................................................................................................................. 25 WHAT IS A BLOG?.................................................................................................................................. 25 COMMENTS IN BLOGS ............................................................................................................................ 27 WIKIS AND RSS..................................................................................................................................... 27 WHAT IS A WIKI?................................................................................................................................... 27 SHARING RSS FEEDS ............................................................................................................................ 29 PHOTO SHARING AND RSS ................................................................................................................... 29 WHAT IS PHOTO SHARING? .................................................................................................................. 29 HOW IT WORKS...................................................................................................................................... 30 MORE IDEAS ......................................................................................................................................... 31 SHARING LEARNING OBJECT’S .............................................................................................................. 31 K-12 Learning Objects Shared Through RSS..................................................................... 31 CLASS AND SCHOOL INFORMATION ...................................................................................................... 32 TRACK DISCUSSIONS ............................................................................................................................. 33 CREATING A PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ..................................................... 33 KEEPING TRACK OF PEOPLE................................................................................................................... 33 AUDIO AND RSS .................................................................................................................................... 33 WHAT IS PODCASTING?......................................................................................................................... 33 HOW IT WORKS?.................................................................................................................................... 34 VIDEO AND RSS..................................................................................................................................... 35 WHAT IS VIDEO SHARING?................................................................................................................... 35 HOW IT WORKS?.................................................................................................................................... 35 PERSONAL EPORTFOLIO ......................................................................................................................... 36 Quentin D’Souza http://www.TeachingHacks.com 3 PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS ................................................................................................................... 36 MERGING FEEDS TOGETHER.................................................................................................................. 36 TO DO LISTS .......................................................................................................................................... 37 COLLABORATING ON DOCUMENTS AND SPREADSHEETS .................................................................... 38 GET YOUR RSS BY EMAIL ..................................................................................................................... 39 OR GET YOUR EMAIL BY RSS............................................................................................................... 39 REMINDERS BY RSS .............................................................................................................................. 40 NOTE TAKING.......................................................................................................................................... 41 ONLINE PRESENTATION SOFTWARE ...................................................................................................... 41 ONLINE DIAGRAMS................................................................................................................................. 42 CALENDARS ............................................................................................................................................. 42 RESEARCH TOOLS.............................................................................................................................. 43 SEARCHING NEWSGROUPS .................................................................................................................... 43 TRACKING PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS ............................................................................................ 43 CREATING A SEARCH FEED.................................................................................................................... 44 NEWSPAPERS .......................................................................................................................................... 44 EXTREME RSS – A FEW MORE RSS IDEAS...................................................................................... 46 RSS ON YOUR START PAGE .................................................................................................................. 46 RSS TO PDF CONVERSION ................................................................................................................... 46 WEATHER BY RSS.................................................................................................................................. 46 WORD OF THE DAY................................................................................................................................
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